Hi Guys I created my interactive document on Indesign 5.5 yesterday. I can view it on my desktop 'Adobe Content Viewer'. Is there a way I can view my document on the iPad without buying the expensive Adobe Digital Publishing suite? I don't want to publish the document, I just want to text it on the iPad? When I log into adobe acrobat I can't organise the files, I can only view the workspace!? Also the 'Adobe Content Viewer app' keeps telling me it needs to be updated?? Can anybody help?

If you can't wait for the viewer to be available on the iPad, uninstall the Folio Producer tools (ID CS5) or InDesign (ID CS5.5), and then re-install the 1.0 tools. Don't install the 1.1 update until Apple approves the viewer.

I have been closely monitoring many threads here at DPS (and DPS Private Beta Forums) in the last few weeks, and yes I am new to this particular product group having only been in it since March. But I wonder if there is some way that Adobe can be made aware of how serious this issue is with Builder and Viewer and tools "not lining up" with Apple.

To keep putting this problem on Apple is somewhat of a shopworn technique (and I say this with all due respect.). Still, Apple commands fully 80+ % of the tablet market. They are the big dog.

Suggestions for the future: Perhaps there will be a way to choose a tools/viewers workflow at startup -- or to put a bigger "red flag" before installing any update that is not yet supported by Apple. Approaching this from the engineering side, you may have forgotten just how many disclaimer screens the average designer/production person faces every week! Many of us don't read them carefully. (Richard Dreyfuss reads them).

I have nothing but admiration for what Adobe software engineers are trying to do -- and these are nascent times to be sure. But it certainly seems like this launch is going poorly.

For all of you with the same problem, v1.0 was not so easy to find, I finally managed to download it from a french adobe page (on the english page they offer 1.1.0 also for 5.0: http://www.adobe.com/fr/downloads/ There you get Win and Mac.

Maybe not the shortest way, but one that works as well: I found that the Android Viewer is showing the current folios with now problems. Luckily we had an Android HTC mobile ("Desire") at hand to try it out.Unfortunately the viewer doesn´t work on all android mobiles (my Samsung Galaxy 551 eg. didn´t allow installation).

I havn´t had a chance to try the app on an Android tablet yet, but assume that that would work as well.

And by the way: I can only join in to all the complaints around the disjunction of viewer (Apple) and creator (Adobe)´s versions. I don´t understand why there is a way to create folios for different viewer versions - especially not given the current long apporval processes of Apple.

acrobat.com still has problems until now. I can create workspaces and folios / articles, etc. They appear in acrobat.com but iPad viewer doesn't find the whole magazine until now or just find it but doesn't update or download contents.

Reported nearly 15 times now to adobe with many details. No solution yet.

could it be (!!) that you misread that message telling you to update...?

Because if you see your content in the iPad viewer you got it!

And:

Everytime you change anything within your folio in Indesign you get exactly that update-message that wants you not to update the viewer but your folio file in the iPad. Could it be?... Here come two (german) screenshots: